Drawer-guide.



E. F. POOLE-Y.

DRAWER GUIDE. APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 29, 1910.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.

QF/ HEEIS WI 7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD F. POOLEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DRAWER-GUIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 24., 1914.

Application filed August 29, 1910. Serial N 0. 579,471.

the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in drawer guides or supports for furniture and the like, and the objects and nature of my invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art in the light of the following description of the ac companying drawings illustrating what I now consider my preferred embodiment from among other formations and arrangements within the spirit and scope of my invention.

The invention consists in certain novel features in construction and in combinations and arrangements of parts as more fully and particularly set forth hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings;Figure 1, is a perspective View of a portion of an article of furniture, parts be ing broken away to show the application of my invention thereto. Fig. 2, is a detail vertical cross sectional view. Fig. 3, is a detail horizontal section. Fig. 4, is a detail vertical cross section showing the drawer support arranged near the lower edge of the drawer side.

In the drawings, I show a drawer housing comprising corner posts or uprights 1, carrying the housing sides or panels, and having the horizontal cross and longitudinal rails 3, 4, rigidly secured thereto and forming the top and bottom walls of the housing for a drawer, all as usual in furniture construction. 5, is a sliding drawer arranged in said housing and having the sides or ends 50.

Means are provided for supporting and guiding the drawer so that the same can be easily and freely moved into and from the housing without objectionable wedging or rubbing engagement with the side, top and bottom walls avoiding wedging and sticking even though the wood of the drawer is subject to atmospheric conditions. In the specific. example illustrated, I show horizontal cross pieces or of the housing, and therebyand rear posts or uprights l, and resting flatly strips 6, secured to and extending between at their ends abutting the front and against and parallel with the inner faces of the housing slde walls or panels 2. These strips 6, are preferably arranged within the vertical planes occupied by the pairs of corner posts 1, respectively, so that their inner objectionable rubfaces do not extend into bing contact with the adjacent side faces of the drawer ends (or sides). These tWo strips 6, can be arranged in a horizontal plane about midway between the top and bottom edges of the drawer ends, as shown by'Figs. 1, and 2, or said two strips can be arranged near the lower edges of the drawer ends and resting on and additionally supported by the housing rails 3, as shown by 1g. 4. Each supporting strip 6, is provided with an inward projection 60, arranged horizon- :tally and longitudinally thereof, and if so desired, sald projection 60, can be formed by a separate strip rigidly and firmly secured to the inner face thereof and extending throughout the length thereof and be- 1 yond the ends thereof, transversely across the inner faces of the corner posts 1, and secured thereto. The two longitudinal supports provided for the drawer and arranged at the opposite ends thereof and in the specific example illustrated, each composed of a strip 6, and a longitudinal inward projection or strip 60, are provided with a longitudinal metal rail or strip 7, to form a supporting slideway or track. This metal rail is arranged throughout the length of the strip 60, and is mounted on and projects up- 'wardly from the top edge thereof and has a comparatively thin or zontal top edge. The metal rail can be formed by an angle iron having its horizontal base flange 70, resting on and securely fastened tothe longitudinal support 6, 60, with its comparatively thin or narrow vertical flange rising therefrom to form the metal rail 7, having its inner vertical face about flush with the inner face of the strip 60. v

The ends of the drawer are longitudinally narrow straight horirabbeted or recessed throughout-the lengths of their outer faces and behind the end edges of the drawer front to form grooves or recesses 8, to freely and loosely receive the inward projections (strips) 60, and the metal rails rising therefrom. The ends of the drawer are provided throughout their lengths with comparatively wide fiat bearing faces to rest and slide on the comparatively thin or narrow top edges of the metal rails 7 and carry the weight of the drawer and its contents. In the specific example illustrated, these bearing surfaces or faces of the drawer ends, are composed of flat metal plates or strips 80, arranged horizontally and facing the top horizontal edge walls of the side grooves or recesses 8. Each strip 80 can form the horizontal longitudinal flange of an angle iron having its vertical flange 81, fitting the outer surface of the drawer end above the recess 8, and rigidly secured thereto.

The drawer is upheld within the drawer housing by the comparatively wide horizontal metal bearing face 80, resting and slidable longitudinally on the comparatively thin top edge of the vertical metal rail 7.

The drawer is stopped against upward movement from the rails 7 by the lower edges of the projections or strips 60, traveling freely in the recesses 8, and above the lower edge walls of said recesses.

I can, if so desired, provide rubbing or stop strips 9, fixed to and longitudinally of contact with the housing walls,

the drawer ends immediately below the recesses 8, to travel freely below and adjacent to the bottom edges of the supporting strips 60, and to travel freely along the inner faces of the strips 6, and limit lateral play of the drawer during its in and out movements in the housing. These stop or bearing strips or faces 9, prevent such lateral play as would cause the vertical faces of the strips 60, to rub against the fioors, the vertical walls, of the recesses 8.

This guiding and supporting device centers the drawer vertically in the housing to prevent wedging or objectionable rubbing 7 and also centers the drawer horizontally or laterally against objectionable rubbing contact.

Material advantages are attained by pro viding supports having longitudinal sliding engagement and comprising a flat comparatively wide horizontal rail or surface and a rail arranged edgewise and having its narrow edge receiving such fiat surface.

It is evident that various changes and modifications might be resorted to in the forms, constructions and arrangements of the parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the exact constructions disclosed hereby.

What I claim is 1. In combination, a drawer housing at its ends having fixed horizontal supports projecting inwardly, angle irons having their horizontal flanges arranged longitudinally of and resting on and secured to said supports with their vertical flanges rising therefrom and forming narrow-edge drawersupporting rails, a sliding drawer having its ends externally formed with longitudinal recesses of a height and depth to receive said supports and rails, and angle irons having their vertical flanges fitting and fixed to the vertical faces of said drawer ends above said recesses and said supports and their horizontal flanges forming longitudinal fiat unobstructed bearing surfaces along the top edge walls of said recesses and resting on the narrow top edges of said rails in sliding adjustment, and rubbing strips 9, parallel with and remote from said recesses and limiting endwise movement of the drawer to prevent lateral disengagement of said bearing surfaces and rail edges.

2. In combination, a drawer having a projecting front and having its ends externally formed throughout their lengths and behind said front with recesses longitudinally open at their outer sides, a housing for said drawer at its ends having supports 6, 60, extending from front to rear thereof and projecting into said recesses through the open sides thereof, and drawer supporting irons in length approximately equal to said recesses and supports, said irons being arranged in pairs and arranged longitudinally of and fixed to and throughout their lengths bearing on said supports and drawer ends, one iron of each pair forming a vertical drawer supporting rail and the cooperating iron forming a wide fiat unobstructed bearing surface in longitudinal sliding engagement with the narrow edge of said rail, said rails and bearing surfaces arranged in said open recesses, said drawer ends provided with rubbing and stop strips 9, arranged below said recesses and engaging vertical faces of said supports 6, and limiting independent lateral movement of said rails and bearing surfaces and holding vertical faces thereof and of said recesses from lateral engagement.

3. In combination, a drawer housing, a sliding drawer in said housing with its ends held from binding contact with the housing ends, and drawer supports arranged horizontally from front to rear of and between and fixed to the drawer and housing ends intermediate the top and bottom edges of the drawer ends and holding said drawer centered in the housing with the top and bottom edges of its ends held from rubbing contact with the housing, said supports consisting of two pairs of rails and plates, each rail being fixed and arranged vertically or on edge and presenting a relatively narrow longitudinal edge, and each plate being fixed and arranged horizontally and unobstructed at its outer longitudinal edge to form a wide flat bearing surface having drawer-supporting longitudinal and lateral sliding engagement with said longitudinal edge of its cooperating rail, said drawer held against rubbing contact between the side faces of said rails and the adjacent vertical faces of the parts to which said plates are secured.

4. A sliding drawer, at the outer surfaces of its ends and intermediate the top and bottom edges thereof, provided with exposed horizontally-arranged plates fixed to and extending from front to rear of said ends and unobstructed at their outer longitudinal edges forming wide flat bearing surfaces in combination with a drawer housing at its ends having fixed drawersupporting rails extending from front to rear thereof intermediate the top and bottom walls of the housing, said rails arranged vertically and presenting narrow longitudinal top edges on which said unobstructed horizontal wide bearing surfaces rest in longitudinal and lateral sliding engagement, said rails and surfaces upholding said drawer centered in said housing with the top and bottom edges of the drawer ends held from rubbing contact with the top and bottom portions of the housing, said drawer being centered horizontally in said housing with the vertical surfaces of the drawer ends held from rubbinlg contact with the vertical faces of said ra1 s.

5. In combination, a drawer housing at its ends having fixed horizontal supports projecting inwardly, angle irons having their horizontal flanges arranged longitudinally of and resting on and secured to said sup ports with their vertical flanges rising therefrom and forming narrow-edge drawer-supporting rails, a sliding drawer having its ends externally formed with longitudinal recesses of a height and depth to receive said supports and rails, and angle irons having their vertical flanges fitting and fixed to the vertical faces of said drawer ends above said recesses and said supports and their horizontal flanges forming longitudinal flat unobstructed bearing surfaces along the top edge walls of said recesses and resting on the narrow top edges of said rails in sliding adjustment.

In testimony whereof I aflix in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD F. POOLEY.

my signature,

WVitnesses Uopies of this potent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0. 

